Meryl has a post on anti-Semitism that contains a rather clever Scorsese reference. (No, Scorsese is not an anti-Semite.)
UPDATE: As you can tell from the comments below I got spammed in my comments section on this post. It came from multiple — five, I think — IP addresses. After sanitizing it I had difficulty adding comments. I’m closing comments on the post for the moment until...

This post by The Professor pretty much summarizes my views on the Palestinian conflict (the links he mentions are intact in his post so click accordingly):
THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT TRY to play a “neutral arbiter” in the Israeli/Palestinian dispute. We should, in fact, be doing our best to make the Palestinians suffer, because, to put it bluntly, they are our enemies. Just read this...

It’s hard not to, in a Bill Clinton moment, “feel the pain” of the people of Bam, Iran considering the senseless loss of life. The story about the infant that was protected in her mother’s arms while her mother died is heartbreaking. Yet, Iran will accept help from every country on earth, including The Great Satan, but won’t accept help from Israel. Israel’s people,...